Scottish Braille Press manager John Donaldson said: “This is a very exciting time for the Scottish Braille Press, marking a significant new chapter in its history as a provider of accessible formats for visually impaired people.

John Donaldson

“In the past ten years we have helped more and more companies to meet the needs of their visually impaired customers by providing correspondence or documents in Braille, Audio and Large Print.

“Our output has now reached a point where we need a larger premises to facilitate the growth of our workforce.”

The Royal Blind School moved to its redeveloped campus in Morningside in 2014 and the C-listed Craigmillar Park campus was put up for sale.